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Sea surface temperatures approached historic highs once more in April, particularly across the extra-polar oceans, which saw their second-highest temperatures on record. More broadly, exceptionally warm waters stretched from the central equatorial Pacific to the western coast of the US and Mexico, corresponding to “strong” marine heatwave conditions, the EU's Copernicus said in its monthly bulletin.
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🌍📰 This week in climate news
1. As the climate crisis fuels a new era of extreme weather, a new report is calling for a total overhaul of the federal agency tasked with America's disaster response.
2. Grueling heat and humidity are much more likely to affect this years’s tournament compared to the 1994 event on the same continent because of climate change, the analysis concluded.
3. Heat on the scale of a recent heatwave in South Asia is now likely to occur once every five years owing to human-induced warming.
4. Polluting companies may soon be shielded from civil lawsuits in New Zealand, where the government is planning legislation to retrospectively ban private citizens and organizations from suing businesses for their climate-damaging emissions.
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🎧️ This week on Earth Radio, players and fans are likely to face dangerous levels of heat and humidity throughout much of the upcoming World Cup tournament.
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Heat on the scale of a recent heatwave in South Asia is now likely to occur once every five years owing to human-induced warming, according to a new study.
A group of researchers with World Weather Attribution analyzed the effect of human-caused warming on a heatwave that swept across India and Pakistan in late April and early May. The event brought temperatures exceeding 46C to several cities, killing at least 37 people in India and 10 in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city.
Such extreme heat, researchers say, is three times as likely to occur on a warming planet compared to pre-industrial climate – now expected once every five years. This makes it no longer an extreme event, but rather a “regular reality,” said Mariam Zachariah, Research Associate in Extreme Weather and Climate Change at Imperial College London and one of the researchers involved in the study.
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The war in Iran has broken fossil fuel markets beyond repair, the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol, said in an exclusive interview with The Guardian. The interruptions to oil and gas supplies and the resulting price spikes, said Birol, will forever turn countries away from fossil fuels and toward more secure renewable energy sources.
“The vase is broken, the damage is done – it will be very difficult to put the pieces back together. This will have permanent consequences for the global energy markets for years to come.”
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Grueling heat and humidity are much more likely to affect the 2026 World Cup compared to the 1994 event on the same continent because of climate change, according to a new analysis by World Weather Attribution.
Image: World Weather Attribution.
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Players and fans are likely to face dangerous levels of heat and humidity throughout much of the upcoming World Cup tournament.
A team of 15 researchers with the World Weather Attribution group calculated the likelihood of all FIFA 2026 World Cup matches taking place when heat is in excess of what the global players’ union FIFPRO deems safe. 104 games are scheduled from June 12 across 16 host cities in Canada, Mexico and the US.
The analysis, which took account of actual game times, revealed that grueling heat and humidity are much more likely to affect this years’s tournament compared to the 1994 event on the same continent because of climate change. A large number of matches are scheduled at the hottest time of day – mid-day or afternoon – where high WBGT is most likely, contrary to FIFPRO recommendations.
In all, about one in four matches are expected to take place in temperatures exceeding 26C Wet Bulb Globe Temperature (WBGT) – a measure of heat stress that accounts for temperature, humidity, wind speed, sun angle, and cloud cover. Heat stress occurs when the body cannot effectively cool itself, typically following prolonged exposure to elevated temperatures without sufficient rest or cooling breaks. According to FIFPRO guidelines, a WBGT above 26C should warrant multiple cooling breaks of around 30 minutes during matches.
Meanwhile, around five matches are expected to occur when the WBGT exceeds 28C – equivalent to about 38C in dry heat, or 30C in high humidity. FIFPRO deems this level unsafe and advises match delay or postponement.
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Polluting companies may soon be shielded from civil lawsuits in New Zealand, where the government is planning legislation to retrospectively ban private citizens and organizations from suing businesses for their climate-damaging emissions.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith announced the plan on Tuesday, citing ongoing civil cliams brought by climate campaigner Mike Smith against seven high-emitting New Zealand agriculture and energy companies. Goldsmith said the case “is creating uncertainty in business confidence and investment that the Government must address,” as he proposed a plan to amend the 2002 Climate Change Reponse Act. The amendment, he continued, would “prevent filings of liability for tort for climate change damage, or harm caused by greenhouse gas emissions, in both current and future proceedings before the court."
Greenpeace slammed the proposal as a “shocking abuse of executive power to help corporate polluters.” In a statement, Greenpeace spokesperson Gen Toop said the law would have a “chilling effect on democracy” and “set a dangerous precedent.”
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🎧️ This week on Earth Radio, campaigners from Fossil Free London gathered outside Shell’s UK headquarters to protest against the company’s better-than-expected profits amid the war in Iran.
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